Spring-bed



J. ROEVER.

SPRiNG BED.

APPLICAHON mm DEC-3, 1919.

1,376,641 Patented May 3, 1921.

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Fl AC- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JULIUS ROEVER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO MARY A. ROEVER, OF RICHMOND HILL, NEW YORK.

SPRING-BED.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 3, 1921.

Refiled for abandoned application Serial No. 99,484, filed May 24, 1916. This application filed December 3, 1919. Serial No. 342,230.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JULIUS Ronvnn, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, county of Queens, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Spring- Beds, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in spring beds, and the general object of my invention is to produce a simple, strong and unusually resilient spring bed. More particularly the object of my invention is to improve certain details of spring bed construction by which the spring fabric or top is rendered moreresilient than usual without impairing its strength, and also is by the same means rendered noiseless. My inven tion consists further in the application of an elastic truss which can be applied below the desired portions of the spring surface, or if it is a double fabric bed, below the lower fabric of the spring surface, so that the bed will be made much stronger without decreasing its resilience.

Another object of my invention is to produce a bed in which the side'portions are stiffened by the trusses above referred to, and in which the middle portions are adj ustable as to resilience or tension, sothat the bed can be regulated to a nicety. Another object is to improve the bed support so that it can be applied to an ordinary bedstead and adjusted to the spring bed which 1t carries.

With these ends in view and with the general object of making a particularly strong and resilient and easy bed, my improvement lies in certain improved features which will be hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a bed embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a two-fabric bed showing my improvement.

Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the structure shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view of the bed support.

Fig. 5 is a detail showing the connections of the cross ties and clips of the bed fabric or surface.

Fig. 6 is an enlarged detail plan of a part of the top fabric or bed surface, and

' Fig. 7 is a, detail perspective view of one of the clips forming a part of the bed.

The bed is preferably made up in two elements 10, each comprising a half bed adapted to lie side by side, but obviously these can be made of any desired width. In general the bed shown in Figs. 1 and 3 cone prises the cross bars 11 at the sides, which are preferably of angle iron, the supporting brackets 12 for the cross-bars, the longitudinal bars 13 supporting the brackets, and the straps 14: made up of connecting rectangular links having at intervals clips 15 which are connected-by diagonally arranged cross ties 23 hereinafter referred to. The straps are linked together as shown and provided near the ends with longitudinally extensible spiral springs 16, and these connect with adjusting toggles 17, and the latter are in turn connected by wires 18 to one of the cross-bars 11. The above construction is not generally claimed except for some details which will be hereinafter pointed out, as I have covered it by other applications. This is especially true of the toggles 17 which are subject to another patent and are simply shown here as illustrating adjusting devices, but the invention is not limited to any particular form of such devices, though the toggles are preferred.

The several clips 15 are provided atv the ends with eyelets or holes 19, and the walls are turned down and under as shown at 20 in Fig. 5 so that the links 14 and ties 23 can be hooked into the eyelets and will fit the thickened and rounded surface so that they will not make any noise when the bed is moved by a person lying upon it. I have found that Where the metal is of one thickness only the noise is liable to occur under bed movements, but where the wall of the eyelet is thickened as shown the bed is noiseless. The clips 15 on the outer straps 14 have depending lugs 21 which are pierced as shown at 22 to form guides for the strengthening truss 25, presently referred to.

The diagonal ties 23 which connect the several straps, the connection being made through the clips 15, are jointed at 24:, this joint being preferably by means of the con-. necting link shown at 24*, though I do not limit the joint to this particular type. I have found that where the cross ties 23 are in a single piece they are likely to make the bed surface too stiff, to increase the noise, and to kink up more or less under use; but by making them jointed as shown all these difficulties are overcome and the bed is rendered very easy to lie on.

Extending longitudinally beneath the outer straps comprising the links 14 of each bed element 10 is a longitudinal truss in the form of a wire 25 which extends through the holes 22 in the lugs 21, and at the ends is attached to the cross-bars 11 as shown in Fig. 3. This truss is provided with a longitudlnally extensible spring 26, and it will be noticed by reference to the figure that this spring is preferably arranged so as to be out of vertical alinement with the spring 16. This arrangement stiifens up the outer straps, making the bed much stronger and at the same time allows sufficient resiliency. It will be understood that while the trusses are placed beneath the outer straps of the bed only, they can be placed beneath them all if desired, or as many as desired, and while Ihave shown the tension of the straps adjustable by reason of the toggles 14, it will be understood that the straps might be made permanent and the trusses similarly adjustable, without at all affecting the invention, as it would be simply a reversal of the arrangement shown.

In Fig. 2 I have shown the application of the truss to a two-fabric bed, and in this case the lower fabric 27 is similarto the upper fabric, and spiral springs 28 are arranged between the two fabrics being supported at the bottom on suitable saddles 29 which have downturned lugs 30 similar to the lugs 21 already described, and serving to space the truss from the fabric and guide it. In this structure the brackets 12 are provided with ledges 32 to support the lower cross-bars 31 of the bed;

In Fig. 4 I have shown a suitable support shoulder 42 which lies opposite the bed rail. 7

It will be seen that this arrangement provides for suitablysupporting the bed, that it can be adjusted to bedsteads of different widths, and that the longitudinal bars 13 can rest in either of the seats 37,38 or 39.

I claim 1. In a spring bed the combination with the bed surface, of clips forming a part of said surface and having downturned per forated lugs, and elastic longitudinal trusses extending beneath the fabric and through the aforesaid lugs.

2. A spring bed having a surface of fabric composed of elastic longitudinal straps, means for adjusting the tension of some of the straps, and elastic longitudinal trusses extending beneath the straps without adjustment.

3. A spring bed having a surface or fabric formed of elastic longitudinal. straps, elastic trusses extending beneath the'outer straps, and means for adjusting the tension of the inner straps. Y r

A spring bed having a surface or fabric of longitudinal elastic straps, an elastic longitudinal truss extending beneath certain of the straps, and means for regulating the relative tension of the trusses and straps.

5. A spring bed having a surface or fabric of longitudinal elastic straps, longitudinal elastic trusses extending beneath certain of th straps and spaced apartv therefrom, and means for adjusting the relative tension of the straps and trusses.

JULIUS ROEVER.

Witnesses: p I

WARREN B. HU'roHINsoN, V M. G. OD0NNELL. 

